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KMID : 0377819920120121601
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Diagnosis and Treatment
1992 Volume.12 No. 12 p.1601 ~ p.1604
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PSEUDODEMENTIA DUE TO SCHIZOPHRENIA
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Kim Jeong-Soo
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Abstract
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Pseudodementia is the syndrome in which dementia is mimicked or caricatured by functional psychiatric disorders.
Depression is reported to be most common, but schizophrenia, personality disorders, and factitious disorders have all been noted. Intellectual impairment in patients with primary psychiatric is not rare, which in turn may lead to therapeutic neglect or inappropriate treatment. The recognition of this clinical syndrome should be obviate the need for many neurological diagnostic studies and lead to earlier and more effective psychiatric treatment. We experienced a female patient with pseudodementia associated with schizophrenic and report this case with a brief review of literature.
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